NEWTON WATER & SEWER UTILITY: EPA violation history, explained
NEWTON WATER & SEWER UTILITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 8,300, over 2,421 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
178 total violations and 51 health-based ones put NEWTON WATER & SEWER UTILITY at the 98th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 256 of 12,903.
Against the NJ average
NEWTON WATER & SEWER UTILITY's 51 health-based violations sit above the NJ average of 5.3, across 270 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
NEWTON WATER & SEWER UTILITY's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-11-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2018-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
NEWTON WATER & SEWER UTILITY's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Carbon tetrachloride
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What NEWTON WATER & SEWER UTILITY's record does not cover
NEWTON WATER & SEWER UTILITY's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 178 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.